We have been working hard to ensure that the various engineering teams working on different parts of Ubuntu are being as open and transparent as possible. This has included many of these teams (e.g. Unity, Mir, App Development etc) sending regular weekly updates of progress being made. Well, we want to amp that up to the next level, so I am proud to announce the *Ubuntu Weekly Update Videocast*!

The idea is simple: we are pulling together a number of engineering managers from a range of different teams and they will provide a weekly summary of what their team has been working on, and their plans for the coming week. These summaries will form the beginning of the videocast and then we will open up for questions throughout the rest of the hour. This will provide a recorded summary of progress that our community, members of the press, and others can use to keep up to date, and a regular opportunity to ask questions to the team.

Our first *Ubuntu Weekly Update Videocast* is happening tomorrow, **Tuesday 24th June 2013** at **5pm UTC** live on [Ubuntu On Air](https://ubuntuonair.com/). Be sure to join us there!

## Interviews

As many of you will know, every week I do a regular Q&A videocast where I invite the community and anyone else to come and *ask me anything*. This show happens **every Wednesday at 6pm UTC** live on [Ubuntu On Air](https://ubuntuonair.com/) and has been well received by the community to ask anything on their minds about our goals, strategy, and areas of focus.

For some time now I have been wanting to conduct a series of interviews with various Ubuntu teams and communities about their work, and I did my first one last week with Jamie Strandboge and Martin Albisetti who are working on the future app upload process designed for app developers who want to deliver their apps on the Ubuntu convergent platform. See the interview [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vz4wbE7NUms), which includes a lot of questions asked from viewers too.

I will be conducting more and more of these interviews, so let me know what topics and teams you want to see in the comments.

## Mir Interview

The next interview I am doing is with the [Mir](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mir) team and this will take place on **Tuesday 2nd July 2013** at **6pm UTC** live on [Ubuntu On Air](https://ubuntuonair.com/). Be sure to join and bring your questions too!